Comment on What do people actually use ChatGPT for? OpenAI provides some numbers.

catharso@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• spechter@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  So almost 50% use it as a more energy intensive search engine, huh?

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  • Perspectivist@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    You can ask it much more complex questions than you can google and you can ask follow-up questions too.

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    • jherazob@beehaw.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      You just have zero guarantee that the answers will be real

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      • stray@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        That’s also true of traditional searches because the resulting webpages can just be whatever bullshit someone wrote. It will only be true that they said it. You still have to use your brain to assess the trustworthiness of the info.

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      • Chozo@fedia.io ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        For what it's worth, ChatGPT has gotten better at citing its sources, so it's easier to fact-check it.

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      • Perspectivist@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        No, mut you can see if the answer makes sense and then fact check it using Google if you need to.

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  • Hirom@beehaw.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yep, using ChatGPT is a way to increase one’s environmental footprint.

    And the energy cost doesn’t appear to be fully passed to users yet, as OpenAI isn’t profitable yet. There are even free LLM services. So users don’t have an insentive to prefer less polluting alternatives, such as classic search engines.

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    • megopie@beehaw.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It’s crazy how much money they are losing, and that’s with most of their compute being provided by Microsoft at cost, if not for free in exchange for the use of their models in Microsoft products.

      Both they and Anthropic talk about their business as if they’re a software as a service company, but most SAS don’t get more expensive to run the more users there are, not to mention their conversion rate of free users to payed users is abysmal. Like, it’s an unsalvageable train wreck of a business model, I don’t see ether surviving more than a year unless they radically change their business models.

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  • DarkAri@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Google really sucks now for some reason. It used to be much better.

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